Coach Tuesday

How drunk is the thread title?

Interesting about Darnold, I thought I read this week that he’s been one of the worst QBs against pressure.

It just doesn’t prove anything. If your point is that Epanesa being a healthy scratch tomorrow makes it unlikely he’ll ever be great. That just doesn’t make sense.

What a weird question. I don’t know if Aaron Schobel was INACTIVE for game one of 2001 but he certainly didn’t start. He went on to have an excellent career.

Edmunds has not missed a game and is 21. There is not a single GM in the league that would consider him a “miss.”

You’d rather have Derwin James than Edmunds? Really? Dude had an injury history coming out and he’s barely played.

Issue is they don’t have the interior line to do that, and their line as a whole has barely practiced together so short-area combo blocks are gonna be harder to execute. Meanwhile the Bills lost their key edge setters in Shaq and Lorax, and Bell is really good at the outside zone runs. That’s what I’m expecting the Jets to feature.

Anyhoo... Expecting the Jets to test the outside LBs tomorrow with lots of outside zone runs from shotgun. That’s what I would do.

Wow the outrage is starting early.

He looks like Bledsoe in that picture. Is that Bledsoe?

No doubt, you are fully entitled to your view that Black athletes should perform like minstrels and stick to entertainment.

Yet here you are. You realize how targeted ads work, don’t you?

I have never heard someone being called a white supremacist because they are proud of themselves and happen to be white - I have no idea what you’re talking about. But “pride in whiteness” suggests something more than that - the Proud Boys are no better than BLM and they’re one of the more benign pseudo-fascist groups out there...

If you took a minute to inform yourself instead of posting something like this, you’d discover that Black athletes have been trying to help their communities and bring awareness to social justice issues for decades. Honestly your entire post is just a tired troll-like talking point.

There is no difference between “all cops are racist” and “all protesters are marxists” or whatever. It’s the same exact kind of destructive (and false) groupthink that’s tearing the country to shreds.

I do see it that way yes. I also think you’re seeing a reaction to some folks feeling like the white supremacists are being sanctioned and encouraged by a certain segment of the GOP. But I also think “positive feelings of whiteness” is a loaded term and I suggest we don’t go there...

I would go further than that and say that the problem - ironically - is that people on both sides treat politics like sports! It amazes me that people on both sides view it as pure coincidence (or worse, proof of divine righteousness) that they always land on the same side of every issue. Stop treating your “side” like a team you’re rooting for and actually think through the nuance and try to understand where the other side is coming from and maybe we’ll get somewhere.

That just isn’t true and I would urge you take your blinders off. The loons are firmly entrenched on both sides of this issue.

OMG the Sean Hannity-level windbaggery that I am waking up to here. The most amazing thing about your posts is that you seek to defend “the booers” and complain they are being painted with a broad brush, urging everyone to consider that there is nuance and diversity to their thought process - all the while painting the entire other side of the debate with one broad, sweeping brush, suggesting that anyone standing for unity or wearing a George Floyd tee shirt is part of the radical left and must be supporting looting and burning. Nuance exists. It exists everywhere. I actually agree with you that racism is a cop-out, cheap and unhelpful explanation. But egads- you’re such a a partisan hack you don’t see that both sides of the debate use the exact same tactics, engage in character assassination, reduce their arguments to simple extremes, etc. I get that you really believe that only The Left does these things, or does them with greater frequency. You’re dead dumb wrong.

Shut up and play! We’ll be sad to “loose” you, Gordon.

No one said that.

The best quote I’ve heard is, “Professional sports are a reward for a functioning society.” I get that you wish you could be entertained without having to hear or think about what’s going on in the world. I’m sorry it doesn’t work that way. The people who are doing the entertaining want to be able to sleep in their beds and drive to their jobs without being shot and suffocated. Last night they picked a very mild and inoffensive way of expressing that. Sh— is messed up in this country almost beyond repair right now and tuning it out is a luxury we can’t afford and don’t deserve.

It’s not cool but it’s their right. They are snowflakes offended by mild forms of self-expression they disagree with.

If you came away from last night with the view that politics were being forced down your throat, you are incredibly sensitive - dare I say a snowflake? - and against even mild forms of self-expression that contain messages you disagree with. In short you are a fascist. Let’s recap this “overwhelmingly political” display: - one player knelt during the anthem - the anthem singers wore tee shirts displaying George Floyd and Breona Taylor - the Texans stayed in the locker room for the anthem so as not to offend anyone by kneeling publicly (which IIRC many of the anti-kneeling mob had advocated for as a less-offensive alternative) - the players locked arms on the field as a brief display of unity against inequality - several players wore symbols and names on their uniforms - there was nothing said that was anti-military, anti-veteran, anti-first responders, or anti-U.S. - a bunch of southerners booed the players for locking arms - all of the “politics” lasted a few minutes and then the players went about doing their jobs and entertaining all of us I’ll repeat: if you find the above to be overly political, the problem is 100% with YOU. It was just about the mildest, most thoughtful, dare I say, most AMERICAN display of free and individual expression I can fathom. It made me proud to be American, honestly, and if you have a problem with last night’s display (not talking about the protests generally, just specifically last night), YOU are the one who hates this country and probably doesn’t belong here.

Let’s just have a weekly thread keeping track of where Jerome Boger and Walt Coleman are.